Call for Papers
Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN) technology, applications and services are the focus of the Fifth International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT) to be held in Montreux, Switzerland, 27-30 March 2011. The theme is MBAN Technology and Services for Personalized Medicine. Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Antennas and propagation for wireless BAN
- BAN technology (radio, protocols, sensors)
- Cognitive Radio for wireless BAN
- Cost effectiveness and business cases
- eHealth systems and electronic medical records
- Medical BAN applications and services
- Future BAN 2020 and beyond
- Hardware architecture and implementation
- Hospital data networks and wireless hospital
- Human Body Communication
- International standards and regulatory matters
- Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems
- Physiological parameters, measurements
- Preventive care and remote patient management
- Personal Networks for eHealth
- Radio coexistence and robustness
- Security and privacy issues
- Smart textiles for wearable BAN
- Systems, sensing and signal processing
- Telemedicine, telemonitoring, telesurgery
- Wellness and sports training
- Rehabilitation and activity monitoring
- Wireless BAN (wearable and implantable)
- Wireless healthcare, homecare and welfare